adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
newly/recently married (=married not long ago)
▪ The newly married couple arrived at their hotel.
only yesterday/last week/recently
▪ ‘When did you email her?’ ‘Only yesterday.’
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
announce
▪ The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties both recently announced their Net plans for the nation.
▪ Disney recently announced that it will cut its movie production in the next year, possibly in half.
▪ The Banks are fully aware of and fully supportive of the measures which we have recently announced.
▪ Emap recently announced the creation of Emap Digital which will support the development of all group investments in internet and new media.
▪ So alarming is the frequency of adolescent childbirth that President Clinton recently announced a community-oriented campaign to prevent teen pregnancy.
▪ The Secretary of State announced recently his intention to accelerate the introduction of an appraisal scheme for teachers.
become
▪ But some decidedly dated machinery recently became the talk of the site.
▪ He succeeds Marvin Weiner, who recently became chairman.
▪ Bear in mind that the densely planted tank has only recently become popular.
▪ Strikes have recently become more frequent.
▪ Women's writing in the period has recently become an area of scholarly interest.
▪ She recently became a spokeswoman for the cause of reducing heart disease in women.
▪ The point is important, because conservation has recently become the subject of fierce debate.
▪ Spinoffs have recently become all the rage, fueled by favorable tax treatment and evidence that shareholders benefit.
begin
▪ Social studies textbooks have only comparatively recently begun to include gender as an area of study alongside social class or ethnicity.
▪ I had recently begun catechism classes in preparation for my first communion.
▪ A further central belief has recently begun to appear as equivocal, namely loyalism itself.
▪ Sanders is among dozens of activists who recently began calling themselves the Back Country Coalition.
▪ However, the torturers have recently begun to talk.
▪ The city recently began the work of condemning easements for utilities.
▪ This is an insight that western medicine has only recently begun to acknowledge.
buy
▪ He recently bought all his music rights.
▪ He had recently bought a huge house there with a garden which bordered on the river, directly opposite Botolph's Wharf.
▪ The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long.
▪ In Britain, its fifth-largest market, the company recently bought Malvern Water.
▪ I have recently bought five, but I don't know the Latin name.
▪ Gucci recently bought a two-thirds stake in Bottega Veneta, simply because the Brits have made it hip.
▪ By contrast, only about one-third of those recently buying on credit gave reasons which could be regarded as positively favourable.
complete
▪ He recently completed a commission for the banqueting suite at 10 Downing Street.
▪ Williams recently completed probation after a 1994 drunk driving charge.
▪ We have modified the recently completed St Jude protocol to withhold systemic antimetabolites during radiotherapy.
▪ It was the recently completed football stadium that captured his imagination.
▪ Steve recently completed the daunting task of photographing 100 leading western philosophers.
▪ The maker of hair-care and other personal-care products recently completed its first year under a younger generation of family managers.
▪ Mr Epperson says the company soon could see its sales grow as a result of a recently completed redesign of AutoZone stores.
discover
▪ Mr Moore had recently discovered how lucrative preventive dentistry could be, and Mrs Moore was dressed accordingly.
▪ Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
▪ Three bodies were recently discovered at Simrudu police station, close to where the 15 villagers were murdered.
▪ A second problem emerged with the need to construct lightweight vessels to contain the recently discovered gas helium.
▪ The world was run, he had recently discovered, by approximations, rules of thumb, and half steps.
▪ I have recently discovered that even the profession of accountant isn't a bar.
introduce
▪ The Employment Service has recently introduced guidance on standards of dress and the Benefits Agency has introduced a range of distinctive dress.
▪ They have recently introduced a new three course menu which at around £19 per person is excellent value for money.
▪ Measures have been introduced recently in the spheres of employment and social security.
▪ Indeed, Infolink has recently introduced Reportline, a document-ordering service to supplement the immediate availability of online commercial information.
▪ The company has recently introduced a five-day option in response to criticism that they were not paying quickly enough.
▪ Fort Sterling has recently introduced toilet tissue and paper towels made from 100 percent recycled paper.
move
▪ Deborah had only recently moved to the village of Wyching.
▪ He recently moved from his house near Ina and Shannon to one near his store.
▪ I've recently moved into a village which has a rector.
▪ They crossed merrily over the bridge into Marin, to which Anastasia and her friends had recently moved.
▪ In this case, a 45 year old woman with a large family had recently moved into the area.
▪ Creek recently moved to Hope, Ark.
▪ One company had recently moved from the centre of London and had curtailed its use of libraries.
▪ The human service center recently moved from leased space into a new, county-owned building in downtown Grand Forks.
open
▪ He has recently opened a branch of his Leipzig gallery Eigen &038; Art in the city's Scheunenviertel district.
▪ One in Clinton, Okla., recently opened at the cost of $ 1 million.
▪ Some camps have recently opened nurseries for women who wish to keep their children with them.
▪ A Boston Market restaurant recently opened at the corner of Rose Street.
▪ Having worked as a freelance for a while, she had recently opened an office in Geneva.
▪ Quinn, 26, recently opened a piano lounge called Goldfingers in Hollywood.
▪ It has recently opened two new stores, each employing 300 people, at Leicester and Thurrock, in Essex.
publish
▪ It has recently published its prospectus for 1992-93, and I will send my hon. Friend a copy.
▪ Californians' degree of support for the process is reflected in the results of a survey recently published by the Field Poll.
▪ An increasing number of studies using faeces as a sample source have been published recently.
▪ The National Cancer Institute has recently published new easy-to-understand, large-print publications on cancer prevention and treatment.
▪ They have also recently published a catalogue of all the safety standards and levels for woodworkers.
▪ He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five.
▪ This discovery, which was recently published in the journal Nature, has come out of a fifteen-year research programme.
receive
▪ We can highlight an example of this in an extract from a letter recently received by the company.
▪ University collections have recently received several valuable works of this kind.
▪ I recently received a letter from a prisoner who was seeking my help.
▪ Simpson's own practice recently received a computer disc from an unnamed council containing the names of over 5,000 defaulters.
▪ Ricky had recently received a small legacy and with this had bought an Opel car with a convertible roof.
▪ She recently received an award from the Campaign for Freedom of Information.
release
▪ On June 10 the Interior Ministry announced that 2,000 detainees had been recently released, in addition to those released gradually since March.
▪ Consumer confidence rose to a 28-year high in May, according to figures released recently. t week.
▪ Probation workers work with people in prison or recently released from prison, helping to ensure they do not reoffend.
▪ Microsoft recently released versions of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh and Windows 3. 1.
▪ Their joint contribution would have warranted a commemorative book, had not one by chance bearing their names already been recently released.
▪ Only the most recently released 1 percent of the gases remain today.
▪ It recently released a list of conditions upon which the round's success depends.
report
▪ Although the pulsed dye laser is often considered of limited value in mature portwine stain, Tan has recently reported excellent results.
▪ An obvious example was reported recently in Tennessee.
▪ Business analysts have recently reported favourably on both sides of the business because of the efficiency measures which are being taken.
▪ Money fund assets will increase about 17 percent to $ 896 billion from a recently reported $ 764 billion, he said.
▪ Among all the states, our school buildings are in the worst shape, the federal General Accounting Office recently reported.
▪ A similar finding, however, has been reported recently by Suzuki etal.
return
▪ I have recently returned from a Polaris orienteering competition, which was held over two days in Exmoor.
▪ Collie recently returned with the opinion that the county can conduct a referendum in November for recreational facilities.
▪ There was a look about him, as if he'd recently returned from the Front.
▪ He was handled by King when he last testified against him, then subsequently left King and recently returned to him.
▪ David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time.
▪ Bernie Nichols of the Chicago Blackhawks recently returned from a spleen injury.
win
▪ Held's road-focused 2080 gloves recently won a recommendation from RiDE magazine, so may be a better bet.
▪ He was an outstanding martial artist, recently winning the Pan-Am Cup in jiu jitsu.
▪ He is in his school sports teams and enjoys singing, having recently won prizes at two festivals.
▪ They recently won one round in their he said-she said wars.
▪ It is part of the substantial order recently won by Sekers.
▪ The funds have recently won three Micropal awards for best performance among smaller groups.
▪ Simpson recently won full custody of the children from the Browns after a bitter court battle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "When did she go back to Italy?" "Oh, very recently - just a couple of days ago."
▪ a new species of plant that was only recently discovered in southern Brazil
▪ As recently as the mid sixties, Nelson Rockefeller was considered unsuitable for the presidency because he had once been divorced.
▪ He lived in Boston until quite recently.
▪ Her school work has been much better recently.
▪ I haven't been feeling well recently.
▪ Just recently I've been thinking about changing my job.
▪ More recently, banks have offered customers the opportunity to change to PC or telephone banking.
▪ the recently industrialized countries of Southeast Asia
▪ The hospital recently installed a new heating system.
▪ The President has recently returned from a five day tour of South America.
▪ Until recently, commercial fishermen had been allowed to shoot sea lions if they tried to steal their catch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership.
▪ Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor.
▪ Police recently uncovered a ring that was selling crack through two girls living in the tiny town of Downs, population 620.
▪ The Fed recently lowered the funds rate to 5. 50 % from 5. 75 %.
▪ The priest was a Missionary Brother of Charity who had recently entered the Order.
▪ The Town of Tortolita recently added Ching to its battery of attorneys by approving a consulting contract.
▪ We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines, so we will have to get a move on.